Set to party-battle with Bruce Willis in Toronto next week? That would be a star who’s been gone for some 33 years, and whose heyday was in the era of silent pictures, but who nonetheless has plenty of game: Mary Pickford.

The original Hollywood celebrity is the inspiration for a soirée happening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, not far from where the megastar was born, and just up and a little west from where Willis and his co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt are set to kick off the filmfest at a big opening night bash in support of their film, Looper.

So what brings a nice, dead star like Pickford to a place like this? The party is actually courtesy of Julie Pacino — Al’s daughter — and her producer partners, as they ready to develop the first-ever feature film about Pickford. The ink is dry! The script is based on Eileen Whitfield’s definitive book about the the screen legend, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. And the party? Co-conspired with Paramax Films and Monde Quest, it’s kind of a full-circle of sorts for the biggest filmfest in North America, if not the world, and a star who was widely known as “America’s Sweetheart” but was actually — gasp! — Canadian.

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“Excited,” is how the younger Pacino summed up the prospect of celebrating Pickford’s legacy in an interview with indiewire.com recently.

And excitement is what the Toronto-sprung Pickford was used to causing everywhere she went in the earliest days of film. A shrewd operator and beyond famous, the actress was so celebrated that she was chosen as the face of the U.S. Army. Following that, her marriage to fellow star Douglas Fairbanks made them essentially the Brangelina of the 1920s! Long, long before a Kidder or a McAdams — and certainly long before Carly Rae Jepsen had the world singing along along to Call Me Maybe — Pickford ruled. She was even one of the co-founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And now, at long last, she has a chance to “do” TIFF.

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Rock-star chef David Chang, in Toronto prepping the opening of the much-ado Momofuku, has been getting around to some elsewhere dining. For instance: he was spotted at the cool-gang Thai spot Kao San Road on Adelaide.

Harry Potter and the Amazing Guacamole? Yup, Daniel Radcliffe — in Toronto shooting the movie The F-Word — was at the brisk biz-doing La Carnita on College Street recently. Not just this, but he nightcapped later that same night at the frolicsome Amber, in Yorkville.

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He might be a stylist to the stars, and the focus of his own fashionista reality series — and, moreover, “a peacock among pigeons” — but it seems like the carefully preened Brad Goreski really likes his SUVs. The Port Perry export confesses as much in the September issue of Canadian House & Home, musing out loud to the mag, “I don’t know why I have this desire to have soccer-mom cars.”

Back to school — and hurrah for Marc Jacobs? Toronto’s lofty new Louis Vuitton “maison” — already altering big-time the streetscape of Bloor and Avenue — is set to officially open its doors Sept. 6.